Word: morgane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...expect that you're going to receive a lot of responses to Jon E. Morgan's article "An Orwellian Nightmare." I am not writing, as I suspect many people may, to protest the printing of the article. Mr. Morgan brings up some very good points in the article concerning the possibility for not understanding what date rape is, and I do not disagree with some of what he has said. However, he has evidently missed the point of everything that has gone on in this community this year concerning educating the community about acquaintance rape. The people who have been...
...Morgan states that "'Yes means Yes and No means No' is the PC battle cry." I would like to ask him, if this is a political weapon, what a woman is supposed to do to protect herself. He has, in making this statement, made it okay for a woman to be ignored when she says "no," because, after all, doesn't "no" mean "just about anything," as he states...
...However, Morgan leaves no room for this effort. According to his analysis, not only is "the language of courtship" not clear, but "it never will...
...Morgan's conclusion that this ambiguity "is the nature of the game" leaves both men and women in dangerous positions. If women cannot trust that they will be understood when they say "no," they cannot ever trust. Likewise, if men do not have some way to understand when a woman is not consenting, they must always fear that misunderstanding will lead to rape...
...Morgan accurately says that men and women are responsible for making themselves understood in bed. We are also responsible for taking steps to understand each other, because sex--as opposed to rape--is a mutual experience...